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the Halcyon season of life), has afforded me much pleasure. Capt. Elliot was so kind as to present me with Mr. Addington's salu- tations, and remembrances of me. I regard our present attitude as a coincidence, and tho' our localities are more remote, I trust our relations, will only be more immediate. You will have received a protest from this Government in relation to the conduct of Mexico, and I hope good may grow out of the measure! If Mexico desires to invade Texas as a civilizea National Power, I can only say, be it so!!! Carnage and great human suffering will insue, but when? I demand, has the Anglo- Saxon race, been beaten back; or when have they bowed to a foreign yoke? A continuance of the War, is only laying a founda- tion of the subjugation of Mexico, by our race! I may not see it. I do not expect to do so, but the second generation from this day, will not pass away, until it will be accomplished, and if it were possible for Mexico to subdue Texas, it wou'd only precipitate the result. The sympathy-for the suffering inhabitants of the country-the alarm to certain portions of the U. States,- the hope of spoil,-the love of Tenitory, and the redundency of popu- lation, would all have a tendency to create a press upon Mexico, which she could not resist! Northern Mexico would be ·in the hands of Missourians in less than a hundred days from such a result! But to press on these matters is idle. If the Mexicans come, or invade us, and I live, with the blessing of God, they shall be well beaten. No matter how Congress may act, or whether they act at all!!! I will as the Constitutional Head of this Govern- ment, do my duty! I cannot conceive of a situation more em- barrassing than that in which I was formerly placed both at the head of the Army, and as the first President of the Nation. I had not one dollar- I had chaos, and from it I produced order! But all harmony was destroyed by the last administration and I found the nation on the verge of ruin! It yet totters, but, it must become stedfast. There are but few questions necessary to bring our matters to a conclusion. Is Texas worth saving; if so, it can be saved. Then if we resolve in the affirmative, the only point left, is the means! They will present themselves to master minds! Such can achieve every thing! Occasion will call them forth. Mrs. Houston requests me to render her thanks to you for your kind remembrance, and to return her wishes for your happiness,
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